12 Henrik Ibsen Quotes on Psychology

Henrik Ibsen quotes on psychology

7. Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

9. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

11. Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

12. I've had the most extraordinary longing to say 'Bloody Hell'!

16. But our home's been nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And in turn the children have been my dolls. I thought it fun when you played with me, just as they thought it fun when I played with them. That's been our marriage, Torvald.

21. I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts, Mr. Manders. It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant, all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us.

28. Tar De livslognen fra et gennemsnitsmenneske, sa tar De lykken fra ham med det samme.

30. Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

32. Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

34. A forest bird never wants a cage.

35. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

41. The future cannot come, for when it comes it's already past.